The next day, the morning dynasty.

Zhao Jun yawned and stood in the court.

Now he has the support of at least a third of the court officials.

Standing at the head of the hundred officials every day, those who oppose it dare not speak out, and the imperial historians secretly investigate Zhao Jun's criminal evidence.

It's just that Zhao Jun hasn't made any moves now, and he hasn't touched the interests of these people.

Second, the government and the prime minister supported him and resolutely supported him in taking charge of the political system.

In this case, the opponents did not touch his moldy head, and when they encountered him on weekdays, they also bowed their hands without smiling and did some superficial work.

Zhao Jun didn't bother to care about these people.

He has some supporters, that is, the two factions of Sanxiang Sanshen and Fan Zhongyan, who have support in the court, so he is not afraid that no one will do things.

So if these people are obedient, if they are disobedient, then it is no wonder that he is not in charge.

Soon the morning was over, and Zhao Jun also asked Li Jian for leave, after he took the medicine yesterday, he really felt a lot more comfortable, and now he still has to go home to recuperate for a while.

At more than seven o'clock in the morning, Zhao Jun arrived at the Constitutional Yuan after breakfast, Sheng Du greeted him, and said to him: "Hanlong, the Jiaozi Division has been established, this is the list." ”

Zhao Jun took over the list review, all of them are some officials who have made great achievements in the economy when they were in power in the local government, because the phenomenon of redundant officials is serious, resulting in the officialdom often has no real shortage, so many officials with political achievements will also have nothing to do.

In such a situation, it is clearly a good thing to avoid a waste of talent by granting them new assignments.

After reading the list, Zhao Jun nodded with satisfaction and said, "Very good, this matter still needs more effort from Sheng Xiang." ”

"It's all part of the business."

Sheng Du said.

Zhao Jun looked around, everyone had already gone to work, and said, "Let's have a meeting." ”

Lu Yijian and the others got up and came to the conference room.

The attendant had already made tea and closed the door, Zhao Jun took out his notebook and began to record, while talking about the theme of today's meeting.

"This year's task is to count the data well, and at the beginning of next year, various departments will be restructured, and if there is no external intervention, the Western Xia will attack the Great Song Dynasty and provoke the Song-Xia War the year after tomorrow."

Zhao Jun said: "So we must dismantle and disperse the originally bloated departments within the next year, and then unify them under the leadership of the Constitutional Yuan, each performing its own duties." How are the statistics of various departments doing now? ”

"About 30 percent of the departments have already counted the data."

Lu Yijian said: "At present, we are still checking whether the data of these departments are true, and it is expected that all the work should be completed by the end of the year." ”

"Hmm."

Zhao Jun looked around and said: "Data is very important, it is an important criterion to measure whether the country is developing. In the future, all departments should be standardized and regularized, and there should be no delay. After that, there is still a lot of work to be rectified, such as formulating rules and regulations, determining assessment standards, etc., so that Wu Yu is more careful, and his statistical work affects the process of the whole country. ”

"Well, I'll entrust this matter to him."

Wang Zeng said.

"This morning Fan Yong sent someone to send a sword, a month ago the Western Xia was dissatisfied with the pro-Song Dynasty, and was awarded the Baoshun Army Festival Observation Stay by the official family, and then sent troops to attack Qingtang, which was defeated by the Gang Guy."

Wang Sui said: "Although Zhao Yuanhao was repelled, he also suffered heavy losses, so I hope we can support him with some grain and grass." ”

"It's still good, if it weren't for the fact that his territory is small and narrow, he may be a generation of Tibetan heroes."

Zhao Jun thought for a while and said: "He is willing to surrender to the Great Song Dynasty now because he knows that the Great Song Dynasty will not encroach on his territory, and the Western Xia will, so he resolutely joins the Song Dynasty to resist the Xia, and if the Western Xia is wiped out in the future, it will not be necessarily." ”

"What do you mean?"

The crowd looked at him.

Zhao Jun said: "The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is our territory, and it must be recovered in the future. The Tibetan people are the Tibetans of later generations, and they are also one of the inseparable 56 ethnic groups in China, Liao, Xia, Tubo and Dali, and the territory of the Song Dynasty must at least reach the peak of the previous dynasties! ”

"It's a big ambition, but can we do it with our strength now?"

Lu Yijian asked.

"Han Tang Ming can do it, why can't Song do it?"

Zhao Jun shook his head and said: "So in the future, he may become our enemy, but we do need to support him now to contain Western Xia, so that the grain and grass can be traded, and the horses must be exchanged, and we can actively carry out mutual markets to promote his economic prosperity." ”

"Han Long, didn't you say that you would take back the land of Tibet in the future?" Song Shouqi said: "How can you help the guy develop his territory? ”

"Why do you keep forgetting a lot of what I said?"

Zhao Jun hated that iron could not become steel: "Cultural and economic invasion is also a way, when they are accustomed to using our words, language, copper coins, our measurements, and living habits, then are they far from becoming us?" ”

"Hmm"

Everyone looked at each other, and gradually had an understanding of many of Zhao Jun's words.

It turns out that this is assimilation.

At the beginning, they hoped that Zhao Jun would join the officialdom, compared with such a nation integrating into a country, it was indeed a little pediatric.

"How's the Firearms Bureau doing?"

Zhao Jun asked.

Cai Qi was dealing with this matter, and he said: "The original firearms were all handled by the Guangbei Siege City of the Ordnance Superintendent, and now I have put the Guangbei Siege Office out separately and established the Firearms Division. ”

Zhao Jun said: "At this stage, it is definitely not possible to directly start the research of firearms, because the hardware cannot keep up, and it is easy to explode. Let's get a grenade, I'll tell you the detailed method when the time comes, and make granulated gunpowder to greatly increase the power of the grenade. ”

In fact, the grenade has appeared in the late Tang Dynasty, and during the Song Zhenzong period, a Janissary Commander named Tang Fu presented a firearm called Huo Yu to Song Zhenzong, but this thing was wrapped in cloth and paper, and there was poisonous smoke hidden in it, which was used as a poisonous smoke ball.

If a real grenade is made of better black powder, plus granulated treatment, it is doped with iron pieces and the like. After being thrown out, it will cause great damage in the crowd and will also deter the cavalry of Western Xia.

Therefore, Zhao Jun did not immediately start to engage in muskets and artillery, but first made grenades, and in the upcoming war between Western Xia and Liao, he was well prepared to resist foreign enemies, and then slowly escalated internally.

"Okay."

Cai Qi said: "Zeng Gongliang ended Ding Wei a few days ago, and the old man has already summoned him to the court, so our Constitutional Yuan will sign an edict and grant him the knowledge of the firearms department." ”

"Well, Zeng Gongliang wrote "Wujing General Essentials" in history, and was a famous politician, military strategist, gunsmith, and thinker in the Song Dynasty, if I give him guidance, if he can concentrate on firearms research and development, it should greatly improve the firearms technology of the Song Dynasty."

Zhao Jun is very satisfied with Cai Qi's ability to act, and now the Constitutional Yuan is slowly building a framework, and then will gradually transfer the entire Second Government and Three Divisions, as well as the rest of the departments, to the Constitutional Yuan.

To some extent, this was a political shift, because everyone worked under the emperor, and the emperor had to distribute a large number of officials in order to balance power, which made the department bloated and thus inefficient.

But now after being transferred to the Constitutional Yuan, the Constitutional Yuan has become the direct leader of various departments, somewhat similar to the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty and the Military Aircraft Department of the Qing Dynasty, but the power is much greater than the two, more similar to the State Council of later generations, in charge of national affairs.

And Zhao Zhen, as the emperor, is not only the direct leader of the Constitutional Yuan, but also in charge of the army, on the other hand, as long as the Constitutional Yuan is in charge of someone he trusts, then his power will not be hollowed out.

Of course.

The premise is that the army is still in his hands.

Anyway, no matter how Zhao Jun chose, the army was pinched to death by Zhao Zhen, except for part of the box army and the transfer power of the Imperial City Division, Zhao Jun had no other military power.

But even so, in a dynasty like the Song Dynasty, where the imperial power held the military power in its hands, it was already remarkable, and it was not easy to seize power from the emperor.

It is also a loss that Zhao Zhen is a weak emperor, and if he changes to a strong emperor like Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhao Jun's grave grass will be three feet high.

Soon the crowd said something else.

At present, the main work of the Constitutional Yuan is to properly handle the national government affairs, and at the same time urge the data statistics of various departments, and then set up several departments, such as the Firearms Department, the Ministry of Geology, and the Creation Bureau.

The departments that have already taken shape include the Statistics Department and the Jiaozi Division, and the Firearms Department will basically be about the same after Zeng Gongliang arrives, and the whole pattern will be on the right track next year.

For the future development, Zhao Jun is still full of expectations.

After the meeting, many prime ministers were engaged in other work, and at ten o'clock in the morning, Zhao Jun read the meeting documents, processed some official documents sent from all over the country, and asked the rest of the prime ministers to sign and so on, so he planned to fish and rest for a while.

At this time, Chen Zhong sent a newspaper, which was made by the printing workshop and handed it to Zhao Jun for inspection.

Seeing this novelty, many prime ministers also gathered around.

"This is the newspaper?"

"Yes."

Zhao Jun spread out the big newspaper, looked at the blank areas in many places on it, and said: "Public opinion is a very important thing, and guiding public opinion is also guiding thoughts." If all the minds of all the people in a country are cohesive, then the power of the explosion of the country will be very strong. ”

Yan Shu took this newspaper up, and what caught his eye was a poem, and he couldn't help but read: "The great river goes east, the waves are exhausted, and the eternal romantic characters are eternal." To the west of the base, humanity is, Zhou Lang Chibi of the Three Kingdoms. Rocks pierce the air, waves crash on the shore, and thousands of piles of snow are rolled up"

"Whose copy did you copy?"

After Yan Shu finished reading it, he looked at Zhao Jun with an unkind face.

Zhao Jun said embarrassedly: "Su Shi's." ”

"Be a man."

Yan Shu beat his chest and said, "He's just a child!" ”

"It's a big deal to compensate him in the future, so that he won't be as miserable as in history."

Zhao Jun shrugged and said: "And I'm also trying to let the newspaper go deep into the people, you see, I didn't use my name on it, and I used the pseudonym Zhou Shuren." ”

"No, in the future, you must give me all the poems of my child, and I will sign them."

Yan Shu said dissatisfied.

"Lao Yan, it's exposed, you just want to rob your child's words."

"Nonsense, that's my boy, and what's hiss is mine."

"You're better at not being a human being."

Zhao Jun put away the newspaper, and then said: "You can write articles to submit to me in the future, I plan to name this newspaper the Great Song Periodical, which is published every seven days." ”

"I know that in the future, the month of January will be divided into four weeks, and the week will be seven days, but the month of the Great Song Dynasty will be divided into thirty days, will it be easier to calculate?"

Lu Yijian asked.

Zhao Jun shook his head: "Da Song is also a five-day holiday, a five-day shift, and it will be the norm after two days off, and since the newspaper is a news publication, it must be time-sensitive. ”

"One issue a day?"

Everyone looked at each other, their newspaper was only once every five days, and all the records were news about the officialdom of the court, but Zhao Jun's newspaper was published every day, is there really so much content to write?

Looking at everyone's puzzled expressions, Zhao Jun just smiled and didn't speak.

As long as the newspaper is deeply rooted in the people, it will naturally attract countless people to contribute, and when the time comes, the Great Song News Bureau can also be established to supervise the official media, which can also play a good role.

A few people were chatting.

Outside, officials brought in another batch of official documents.

The head official is Lang Zhouzan, the secretary of the Constitutional Yuan, today is the day to limit the submission of data by the Salt and Iron Division, and Zhao Jun sent Zhou Zhan to the Salt and Iron Division in the morning to urge.

"Oh?"

Zhao Jun saw that a group of officials of the Constitutional Yuan came back with so many official documents, put down the newspaper in his hand and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Zhou Zan replied: "The lower officials went to the Salt and Iron Division and asked them to send them over for statistics, and Deputy Envoy Liu of the Salt and Iron Division said that these are all official documents sent from all over the country this year, and they have other things to do in the Salt and Iron Division, so they don't have time to count, so we have to calculate them ourselves." ”

"Bang!"

Zhao Jun took the case and looked around, Lu Yijian and the others: "Is this Liu Yuanyu sick in the brain?" If he can't do statistics, what's the use of asking him? ”

Seeing Zhao Jun angry, everyone looked at each other.

Wang Zeng muttered: "Xu is Liu Yuanyu did not like the establishment of the Constitutional Yuan, he was also an opponent at the beginning, and now he is using this way to resist the Constitutional Yuan. ”

"Huh."

Zhao Jun laughed instead of being angry, and said: "Then it's time for him, the deputy envoy of the third division, to be replaced, do you have any candidates?" ”

Lu Yijian was overjoyed and said, "Jia Ziming is talented and competent. ”

"No."

Wang Zeng saw that Lu Yijian wanted to arrange his cronies again, and said unhappily: "How important is the position of the salt and iron envoy of the third division, Jia Changchao has never set foot in the third division, how can he be chosen?" ”

"Who is the candidate for the prime minister?"

Zhao Jun asked.

"Li Retro is competent!"

Wang Zeng said without hesitation: "He has served as the judge of the three divisions of salt and iron, the deputy envoy of salt and iron, and the envoy of the three divisions many times, and he knows the three divisions well. ”

"No!"

Lu Yijian hurriedly wanted to stop it, Li Gugu was Li Di, his nemesis.

But it was too late, Zhao Jun immediately said: "Sign the prefect's order to summon Li Di to Beijing, and afterwards I will ask the official family to add a seal to Li Di." ”

After finishing speaking, Zhao Jun looked around with a sneer and said: "The Third Division of Salt and Iron is the first fire burned by our Constitutional Academy, everyone, come with me, I want to see how big this Liu Yuanyu's shelf is." ”

At present, the Constitutional Yuan has not issued any political orders, and the formal restructuring will not begin until next year, and the result is that now it is just a matter of statistics, and a salt and iron division dares to be so rampant.

If we don't directly dispose of the entire Salt and Iron Division by thunderous means, I am afraid that it will be difficult to reform the system in the future, and it will inevitably cause a large number of officials to follow Liu Yuanyu's example.

Therefore, the new official should burn the first of the three fires when he takes office.

(End of chapter)